diff --git a/src/app/EventLogging.h b/src/app/EventLogging.h
index b2ce7667ab2364..f9fa56837f07e9 100644
--- a/src/app/EventLogging.h
+++ b/src/app/EventLogging.h
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ CHIP_ERROR LogEvent(const T & aEventData, EndpointId aEndpoint, EventNumber & aE
     eventOptions.mPriority    = aEventData.GetPriorityLevel();
     eventOptions.mFabricIndex = aEventData.GetFabricIndex();
     // this skips logging the event if it's fabric-scoped but no fabric association exists yet.
-    VerifyOrReturnError(eventOptions.mFabricIndex != kUndefinedFabricIndex, CHIP_NO_ERROR);
+    VerifyOrReturnError(eventOptions.mFabricIndex != kUndefinedFabricIndex, CHIP_ERROR_INVALID_FABRIC_INDEX);
 
     //
     // Unlike attributes which have a different 'EncodeForRead' for fabric-scoped structs,
diff --git a/src/controller/python/test/test_scripts/cluster_objects.py b/src/controller/python/test/test_scripts/cluster_objects.py
index deae10c2cd6962..d86d25646ddd2f 100644
--- a/src/controller/python/test/test_scripts/cluster_objects.py
+++ b/src/controller/python/test/test_scripts/cluster_objects.py
@@ -335,11 +335,14 @@ async def TriggerAndWaitForEvents(cls, devCtrl, req):
     @base.test_case
     async def TestGenerateUndefinedFabricScopedEventRequests(cls, devCtrl):
         logger.info("Running TestGenerateUndefinedFabricScopedEventRequests")
-        await devCtrl.SendCommand(nodeid=NODE_ID, endpoint=1, payload=Clusters.TestCluster.Commands.TestEmitTestFabricScopedEventRequest(arg1=0))
+        res = await devCtrl.SendCommand(nodeid=NODE_ID, endpoint=1, payload=Clusters.TestCluster.Commands.TestEmitTestFabricScopedEventRequest(arg1=0))
+        logger.info(f"command return result is {res}")
         res = await devCtrl.ReadEvent(nodeid=NODE_ID, events=[
-            (1, Clusters.TestCluster.Events.TestEvent, 0),
+            (1, Clusters.TestCluster.Events.TestFabricScopedEvent, 0),
         ])
         logger.info(f"return result is {res}")
+        if until(res):
+            raise AssertionError("failure: not expect to reeive fabric-scoped event when fabric is undefined")
 
     @classmethod
     @base.test_case